North Carolina · Nonprofit
INTO THE WILD
INTO THE WILD (North Carolina) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $56,000 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC ($52,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 93% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $16k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $56k
- Net assets
- $11k
What Into the Wild does
Mission
To provide holistic recovery services to women experiencing the effects of Substance Use Disorder in therapeutic outdoor environments.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Conducted two full 6 week sessions that included individual and group counseling, trauma informed care, art therapy, gentle yoga sessions , healthy food choice discussions, and challenging outdoor experiences (kayaking, swimming, hiking, and campfire therapy). All experiential activities were conducted in a combination of open-air and natural outdoor settings to address the physical, psychological, and social dimensions of addiction recovery. During the tax year, the organization served twenty-four women and each six-week session consisted of two days per week. The curriculum for each session contained identical wilderness programming, delivered by licensed clinical staff, certified peer support specialists, case managers, and aftercare planning coordinators all focused on sustained recovery. All clients completed intake questionnaires that examined their opinions regarding initial rehabilitation, next stage recovery, probability of substance use, and other factors that impact their ability to return to being productive members of our community and to regain their sense of self.
$36,552 spentof which $14,720 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $36,552.
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Sonia Hensel
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $10k → $22k.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 93% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of INTO THE WILD’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
INTO THE WILD leans on a few funders — its largest provides 93% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
93% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund INTO THE WILD.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
93% of INTO THE WILD's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $4k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from North Carolina funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $52k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
INTO THE WILD receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $56k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,360 health nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like INTO THE WILD
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for INTO THE WILD: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds INTO THE WILD?
- INTO THE WILD (North Carolina) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $56,000 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC ($52,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 93% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does INTO THE WILD have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $56,000 in grants to INTO THE WILD, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of INTO THE WILD?
- THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC is the largest funder on record, with $52,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like INTO THE WILD find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2025–2025), and the filings of 2 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing